Divinity - Original Sin 12+

A great game until I upgraded to El Capitan. The support team was unable to fix the problem and suggested work-arounds didn’t do the trick.

I’m only writing this because there’s no way to submit feedback directly to someone who will read it on their website. There are a couple glaring omissions from the navigation/UI features that should be addressed definitely by subsequent games and it would be worth to update in this game:

The map zoom level is always reset when you go back to the map screen. Really, really dumb.
I can’t zoom out enough in the world. Some buildings are just really big, and they are actually sized to scale since there is no transition between the outside world and entering a building. Do whatever you need to support a ‘really zoomed out’ mode, i.e. a much-reduced polygon count for everything, reduced textures etc.
Last, and related to the zooming problem above, is there’s no way to order the troop to a far location without scrolling there in the world. What we need is a way to change the world viewport by clicking on the map, the view should jump to that location. This is what every other overhead RPG has done.

I just changed the rating to 3 stars after playing for awhile (starting the second area), because the game has major problems with difficulty management. There are no random encounters, so it’s impossible to do ‘leveling'. This should ALWAYS be an option. And the equipment system places WAY too much emphasis on constantly finding upgrades, which is not easy. Cmon, damage at level 1 starts at 10-20, but by level 4 or 5 (I think) your leads need to dish at least 100.

TL;DR:
This game tries to be too many things and fails at every possible turn.

Longer Review:
This game is another in a series of games released via Kickstarter. This is far from being a bad thing outright, however it should tell the careful reader that the primary value of this game is in its nostalgic quality. Aside from that there is no real reason to play this game.

There is a LOT of story - literally everyone, even enemies, have stories that are long, dry, and pointless - with almost no direction for where to go or what to do. You will die to dumb encounters that are above your head. A LOT. Your characters are made from foil and hope, everything else, even DOORS, have hundreds of hitpoints and laugh off your attacks. Controls for camera rotation are arcane so enjoy your one perspective on a clearly 3-D environment. The journal is more or less useless.

There is also no clear guide for how to properly level your character, no clear guide for the crafting system, no clear guide for weapons, armor, spells, or anything else that might be important. I get it, modern games hold your hand a bit much, but if I wanted so little infomration I would install Dark Souls and at least have better controls, graphics, environment, and storyline.